Sand-auger



J. SICKLER.

SAND Amm (No Model.)

No. 297,642. Patented Apr. 29, 1884.

1N VENT" R= l WITNESEEE:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB SICKIJER, OF OTTERBEIN, INDIANA.

SAND-AUG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 297,642, dated April 29, 1884.

' Application inea February 12,1384. {No.model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J AooB-SrcKLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Otterbein,

in the county of Benton and Statevof Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sand-Angers, of which the followingiis a specification.

My invention relates to a means for remov.

it is raised from the well.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved auger. Fig. 2 is a section of the auger and well7 showing the operation of the auger.

ais a thin metallic 'cylinder having its lower end flat and closed, as shown, while the upper end is left open. ,A socket, b, is cast onthe inside of the cylinder in the center of the bottom. In this sock et is rmly secured a wrought'- iron shaft, c, passing up through the cylinder, and having an eye in its upper end, whereby it may be hinged to thev boring-shaft d of a common well-boring auger. A band, e, is adapted'to slip down over this joint,holding it rigid while in operation. lwo thin spiral flanges, f f, are cast integrally with the cylinder a. These 'flanges begin in the center outside of the bottom, and .extend outward to the circumference of the cylinder, thence upward spirally to the top of the cylinder, thus forming two auger-lips lat the bottom and two inclined planes on the outside of the cylinder. The cylinder a is made about one-sixth sm aller than the bore of the wellftube, and the anges f f aremade wide enough to fill the space between the cylinder and the well-tube g. The

l upper ends of vthese spiral flanges stop level with the top of the cylinder. The lower ends are flattened and sharpened similar to ordinary auger-lips. Space enough is left between the spiral iianges and the well-tube to allow the auger to pass' freely up or down inside the tube.

The operation is as follows: The auger is attached to the ordinary well-boring auger-shaft, d, and lowered to the bottom of the well. Then it is turned, its weight and the weight of the shaft force it down into the'sand. rlhe spiral lianges take up the sand and pebbles as the cylinder is turned, raising them to the top, when they pourinto the cylinder. The auger is now raised from the well, the band e is slipped upward off of the joint, and the auger may be inverted for emptying'.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. rIhe combination of the hollow cylinder a, closed at the bottom, flanges f f, socket'b, shaft c, shaft d, and bande, adapted to' holding c and d rigid, all substantially as shown and described.

2. A sand-auger consisting of a hollow cylinder, a., closed at the bottom, having two sharpened lips on the bottom, and having two spiral langes wound upon itleXt-ernally from the top to the center of the bottom, and forming a hollow auger adapted to being moved freely inside of a well-tube, and to being attaehed to a common well-boringauger-shaft, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

. JAooB sicKLEE. 

